Some say I speak in parables. The reality is far more complex. Within these walls you may find musings on philosophy, theology, politics, and Christian apologetics (without parables -- I'm a much more competent straight-talker than storyteller).

Trinity Fellowship sermons

This is the archive for sermons from Trinity Fellowship in Syracuse, New York. Most of the current sermons are preached by the elders of the congregation: Jeremy Jackson, Stefan Matzal, Doug Weeks, and Nathaniel Jackson (with Al Gurley preaching a lot of the earlier ones, as one of the three founding elders). Audio for other sermons by current members, former members, and guest preachers is included only if I have either permission from the preacher or an okay from one of the current elders to put it up without permission.

With some exceptions, Trinity Fellowship preaches from the gospels in the winter, historical books in the spring, epistles in the summer, and prophets in the fall. In earlier years, the schedule was slightly different, and topical series sometimes occur in place of one of the others (but only once in place of a gospel) during a break between books. Acts was done during the epistle segments, and wisdom books are being covered in prophet segments. Revelation's early chapters were done as if epistles, because of the prominence of the letters to the churches. The rest of the book was done as prophecy.

I have organized the list according to the four sections of preaching for individual quarters. For a chronological listing of all the sermon series, with topical sermons interspersed, seer the listings for 1978-2000 and 2001-present.

Please let me know (leave a comment below or on any individual posts, or use the email link under Contact, near the top of the sidebar) if you find anything that doesn't work right.

It's organized by sermon series. The main gaps at this point are from sermons by guest preachers who haven't given permission to post their sermons and unrecorded sermons, primarily in the earliest months of Trinity Fellowship.

Tuesday Night Bible Studies

Trinity Fellowship has a Tuesday night Bible study group that's met since 1972, about six years before the church even formed. The vast majority of these Bible studies have not been recorded, but for certain periods of time an enterprising member has been willing to record a series or some individual studies.

I will not be posting all of the studies of biblical books that we have copies of, because most of them have been superseded by later sermons, and those are available above. I am recording them to digital audio files for preservation in our archives, but Jeremy Jackson has decided not to have them posted, with the exception of one series.

We have Micah and Philippians from 1985, but Micah was done more thoroughly in sermons in 2006 (see above under Prophets and Wisdom), and Philippians was done more thoroughly in sermons in 2010 (see above under Acts and Epistles). We also have Revelation from 1989-1991, but those were done in sermons from 1999-2001 (see above, both under Acts and Epistles and under Prophets and Wisdom Literature). I have been recording the current Acts studies, begun in the spring of 2012, but Jeremy prefers to have just the sermons from the 1986-1989 online to represent Acts. Update: I also have recordings of a study on Jonah from 2014, but the same is true of those. The sermons from 2008 cover that book.]

The Romans studies from 1987-1989 are much more in-depth than the sermons from 1982-1983. [There were some Romans studies in 2010-2011, and I have recordings of about half of those, but Jeremy Jackson prefers the 1987-1989 set, which contains more detail in addition to a few topically-oriented studies of the theology of Romans and foreknowledge in Romans 9-11. So the more recent, but incomplete and less-detailed, Romans studies will also remain in the archives. I can make any of these available to anyone by request, but Jeremy prefers to have sermons represent these books online, with the exception of the 1987-1989 Romans studies. The only other studies he would have been happy to have online were the Job studies of 1995-1996, but those were not recorded. I do have his summary notes on those studies below. Update: Since Trinity Fellowship has never preached on Esther, the recordings I have of the 2014 studies on Esther are now being added.]

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Given the number of sermons you've posted, there's a lot to wade through. Is there anywhere in particular you'd suggest we start? Any particular sermon or series that stands out? I realize that might be hard, but I figured I'd ask.

For someone like you, I'd say start with something you're less familiar with. I've been listening to old series to fill in my own gaps in books that I've never done in a Bible study, read commentaries on, or heard sermons on. I'm in the middle of Jeremiah right now. (Those will be up soon, actually. I'm waiting on two missing tapes from the backup tape library that I didn't even know existed until a few days ago. One of them is the missing first tape, so I wanted that there before I go live with the first set. Except for the four sermons on those two tapes, I've got the entire set digitized.)